Article
Beef carcass composition of slaughter cattle differing in frame size, muscle score, and external fatness.
Journal of animal science - 1 Aug 1992
May S G, Mies W L, Edwards J W, Williams F L, Wise J W, Morgan J B, Savell J W, Cross H R
Abstract excerpt
Commercial slaughter steers (n = 329) and heifers (n = 335) were selected to vary in slaughter frame size and muscle thickness score, as well as carcass adjusted 12th-rib fat thickness. After collection of USDA carcass grade data, one side of each carcass was fabricated into boneless primals, sub...
Topics
- Abattoirs
- Adipose Tissue
- Animals
- Body Composition
- Cattle
- Female
- Male
- Meat
- Muscles
- Phenotype